Abel is 6 feet tall and casts an 8-foot shadow. A lamppost next to him casts a 13.5-foot shadow. Use the drop-down menus to buil
d an equation that can be used to find the height, h, of the lamppost.
2 answers:
The lamp post height is 11.5 feet
Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
this is a proportion word problem
so 6/8=x/13.5
notice that the top half of the division is for actual height and lower half is for the height of the shadow.
cross multiply your equation and then solve for x
x=10.125
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